[CQ-Contest] Spoofed Self spots

[Yuri]

Dave,
I am just reviewing spots after the Contest now and I noticed that I too 
was spotted with my own call several times.
Would be interesting to find out who was doing it and why.

Yuri  VE2IM (a.k.a. VE3DZ)

On 11/1/2021 11:46 AM, Dave K2XR via CQ-Contest wrote:
> GM contesters.  Hope you all are resting well.
>
> In the FRC chat room we have been discussing the abundance of apparent 
> self spots during the contest.  Many of our participants who run had 
> their callsigns spoofed and spots of themselves made. It seems to have 
> happened to enough of us that the question was posed...   'Was it just 
> FRC that was targeted, or was it all contesters? "
>
> Looking on this reflector as well as the 3830 reflector, it didn't 
> take long to see that it wasn't just FRC.
>
> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2021-11/msg00174.html
>
> Curious to know who else out there was targeted.  The were about 10 
> cases in the chat room I was in this AM, and suspect it might have 
> been a huge problem.
>
> Is there a way for the sysops to track down the origin ?     I would 
> think so, but am not positive.
>
> It would be great to nail the perpetrator, and some of us are 
> demanding it if it is all possible.  Kind of ruins everything for some.
>
>     Dave   K2XR      Frankford Radio Club
>
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